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A Russian Company Took Down A Huge iPhone Sculpture Because Tim Cook Is Gay
http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/a-russian-company-took-down-a-huge-iphone-sculpture-becauseOn Friday, one day after Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote an essay saying he was gay, ZEFS took the sculpture down. In a statement sent around on Monday, it said the iPhone was now “public propaganda for sodomy.”
“After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the sculpture was dismantled in line with Russia’s federal law protecting children from information that propagandizes the rejection of traditional family values,” the statement said....
“Since the public sodomy propaganda from the head of Apple, the sculpture now carries two meanings: antagonistic to our Russian culture and to Russian law,” Dolgopolov said, explaining his decision to dismantle it....
A Russian MP had already suggested banning Cook from Russia for life because he is gay. St Petersburg, Russia’s cultural capital, has been at the forefront of Russia’s campaign against LGBT rights.
“After Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly called for sodomy, the sculpture was dismantled in line with Russia’s federal law protecting children from information that propagandizes the rejection of traditional family values,” the statement said....
“Since the public sodomy propaganda from the head of Apple, the sculpture now carries two meanings: antagonistic to our Russian culture and to Russian law,” Dolgopolov said, explaining his decision to dismantle it....
A Russian MP had already suggested banning Cook from Russia for life because he is gay. St Petersburg, Russia’s cultural capital, has been at the forefront of Russia’s campaign against LGBT rights.
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